Method for reducing data in the transmission and/or storage of digital signals of several dependent channels
First Claim
1. Method for diminishing cross channel interference in a data reduction process during the transmission and storage of information in N dependent channels, each channel comprising a channel signal having a frequency range which includes a plurality of frequency range parts, in which method scanning values of said channel signals in the time domain are transformed blockwise into the frequency domain, thereby providing respective spectral values for said range parts, the spectral values are encoded, transmitted and/or stored, decoded and transformed back into N channel signals in the time domain, comprising:
- determining a single quantity which is a measure of the overall spectral separation between the different channel signals, based on the spectral values for corresponding blocks of the different channel signals;
comparing the quantity with a predetermined threshold;
performing common encoding of said channel signals when the quantity falls below the threshold; and
performing separate encoding of said channel signals when the quantity exceeds the threshold.
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A method for reducing data during the transmission and/or storage of the digital signals of several dependent channels is described in which the dependence of the signals in the channels, e.g. in a left and a right stereo channel, can be used for an additional data reduction. Instead of known methods such as middle/side encoding or the intensity stereo process that lead to perceptible interference in the case of an unfavourable signal composition, the method according to the invention avoids such interference, in that a common encoding of the channels only takes place if there is an adequate spectral similarity of the signals in the two channels. An additional data reduction can be achieved in that in those frequency ranges where the spectral energy of a channel does not exceed a predeterminable fraction of the total spectral energy, the associated spectral values are set at zero.
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1. Method for diminishing cross channel interference in a data reduction process during the transmission and storage of information in N dependent channels, each channel comprising a channel signal having a frequency range which includes a plurality of frequency range parts, in which method scanning values of said channel signals in the time domain are transformed blockwise into the frequency domain, thereby providing respective spectral values for said range parts, the spectral values are encoded, transmitted and/or stored, decoded and transformed back into N channel signals in the time domain, comprising:
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determining a single quantity which is a measure of the overall spectral separation between the different channel signals, based on the spectral values for corresponding blocks of the different channel signals; comparing the quantity with a predetermined threshold; performing common encoding of said channel signals when the quantity falls below the threshold; and performing separate encoding of said channel signals when the quantity exceeds the threshold. - View Dependent Claims (2)
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3. Method for reducing data during the transmission and/or storage of digital signals from N dependent channels, in which scanning values of signals from the time domain are transformed blockwise into the frequency domain in spectral values, the spectral values are encoded, transmitted and/or stored, decoded and transmitted back in N channels in the time domain, comprising:
- determining from the spectral values of corresponding blocks of the different channels a quantity which is a measure for the spectral distance between signals of the different channels;
comparing the quantity with a predetermined threshold;
performing a common encoding of the signals from the different channels upon the quantity dropping below the threshold;
further comprising determining the spectral distance between the signals of different channels from corresponding frequency domain parts of the signals; and
further comprising transmitting signals from two acoustic stereo channels and wherein the condition for the common encoding of the signals is described by the following rule
space="preserve" listing-type="equation">SD/SE<
c,in which SD is a measure for the spectral distance between the signals from the right and left stereo channels and is formed according to the following instruction;
##EQU5## in which Li or Ri are the coefficients of the left or right stereo channel frequency-encoded with the block length IBLEN, n is a freely selectable standard and f1 and f2 are the index limits of the considered frequency interval, the quantity LR-- RATIO is the ratio of the signal quantities of the left to the right channel and SE the spectral energy of the stereo signal and which is formed according to the following instruction;
##EQU6## and c is a predeterminable threshold constant with 0<
c<
1. - View Dependent Claims (4, 5, 6, 7)
- determining from the spectral values of corresponding blocks of the different channels a quantity which is a measure for the spectral distance between signals of the different channels;
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8. Method for reducing data during the transmission and/or storage of digital signals from N dependent channels, in which scanning values of signals from the time domain are transformed blockwise into the frequency domain in spectral values, the spectral values are encoded, transmitted and/or stored, decoded and transmitted back in N channels in the time domain, comprising:
- determining from the spectral values of corresponding blocks of the different channels a quantity which is a measure for the spectral distance between signals of the different channels;
comparing the quantity with a predetermined threshold;
performing a common encoding of the signals from the different channels upon the quantity dropping below the threshold; and
further comprising determining from the spectral values of corresponding frequency domain parts of the different channels quantities which represent a measure for the spectral energy of these frequency domain parts, comparing these quantities of the different channels with the spectral energy of all the channels in these frequency domain parts and wherein in frequency domain parts in which the spectral energy in individual channels drops below a predeterminable fraction of the total energy of all the channels, the corresponding spectral values of the frequency domain parts are set at zero. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
- determining from the spectral values of corresponding blocks of the different channels a quantity which is a measure for the spectral distance between signals of the different channels;
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16. A method for diminishing cross channel interference in a data reduction process during the transmission and storage of digital signals from N dependent channels, the method comprising the steps of:
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transforming blockwise scanning values of signals from the time domain into the frequency domain in spectral values, said spectral values being encoded, transmitted and/or stored, decoded and transmitted back in N channels in the time domain; determining a single quantity which is a measure for an overall spectral separation between the different channels, based on the spectral values for corresponding blocks of the different channels; comparing the quantity with a predetermined threshold; performing common encoding of said channels when the quantity falls below the predetermined threshold; and performing separate encoding of said channels when the quantity exceeds the threshold.
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